Despite the strong military restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation forces to limit entry to Jerusalem, worshipers started to arrive early in the morning for Friday prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque ...

April 8 (UPI) --Israel said Saturday that Muslims barricaded inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem are a "dangerous mob" after a warning from the Jordanian Foreign Ministry about breaching the ...

Aug. 24 (UPI) --Hamas has issued a call to Muslims in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem to make their way to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and flood it with prayer amid calls from Israeli settlers to ...

Violence broke out at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City overnight after Israeli police stormed the sensitive compound, fueling fear that already-high tension in the heart of the Middle East ...

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In the latest in a series of provocations, Itamar Ben-Gvir agreed that a new synagogue should be built at the site, which Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims know as the Aqsa Mosque complex. By ...

Update: Many colonizers, accompanied by a far-right member of the Israeli Knesset, invaded the UNRWA building in Sheikh Jarrah Palestinian neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, Al-Jazeera said. Several ...

The preacher of East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, appeared in an Israeli court on Tuesday on charges of “incitement”. The charges, filed by Israeli prosecutors in August 2024, ...

The Jerusalem Governorate reported in a statement on Sunday that 921 colonists, escorted by the Israeli occupation police, intruded into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in cascading formations. They ...

Picture this: it's 1929, almost 20 years before Israel's founding. Grand Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, prominent Muslim leader in Jerusalem and well-known Hitler associate, has just fabricated a claim ...

Israeli police raided the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem for the second time in two straight nights on Wednesday, with Palestinians who were worshipping barricading themselves inside and Israeli ...

Hamas official Bassem Naim said the group is ready for a comprehensive approach in Gaza ceasefire talks, while defending the ...